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Originally Posted by Ekdog
Physically separated bike lanes are the only way to go.
Yes, as one of the pro-segregation speakers in the video says, the best possible solution would be for cyclists to share the sidewalk with the peds.

The last time NY tried the physically segregated lanes, cyclists quite rationally wouldn't use them:
Originally Posted by NYT Article
Ten years later, Mayor Edward I. Koch became frustrated when bike lanes that he had built on main thoroughfares like Fifth Avenue and Broadway, which were separated from motor vehicles by asphalt islands, were criticized by drivers and pedestrians and, even worse, ignored by many cyclists.
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